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      Lidl

      Engaged Employer

      Lidl reviews

      3.4

      58% would recommend to a friend

      (8,094 total reviews)

      Kenneth McGrath

      71% approve of CEO

      48% positive business outlook

      Ratings by demographic groups

      Lidl has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 8,094 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Lidl employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Einzel- & Großhandel industry (3.4 stars).

      Reviews by job title

      8K reviews
      1.0
      Sep 9, 2014

      Horrendous place to work

      Deputy store manager
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      It was a job, paid the bills for a while. Honestly the only positive thing I can say.

      Cons

      Bully-boy management style rife throughout the organisation, old school scaring and threatening of employees. Pass-the-buck Store Managers looking to find fault and blame for own shortcomings at every turn. Huge staff turnover, staff morale is on the floor. The worst experience of my 15 years working, by a mile. Laughable attempts to cover up the negative feedback from current and former employees as 'not being able for hard work' or 'you don't get paid for drinking coffee'. Regularly worked 60+ hours per week, still never enough. Awful, truly awful place to work. STAY AWAY

      2.0
      Dec 19, 2023

      Management expect the impossible

      Senior associate
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Good salary, flexible working, good colleagues

      Cons

      If you're not German or European you are will never climb. Make you feel replaceable.

      1.0
      Oct 21, 2023

      Company is no longer treating employees as well as in the past

      Analyst
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Lidl pays well and has good benefits, and allows fully remote for any position that can be done remotely.

      Cons

      As of 2023 Lidl is no longer treating employees well IMO. There was a mass layoff in Feb 2023, 30% of the staff at headquarters, and there's been people regularly disappearing since then. The training was always iffy, but until 2023, as long as you were following the process as you'd been trained, it wasn't held against you if you hadn't been trained on something and therefore weren't doing it. They brought in a hatchet man who is firing people, even tho he doesn't understand the processes the actual employees do. He asks for feedback but then ignores it and if you give critical feedback or point out problems or mistakes he made because he doesn't understand a process, he holds it against you. He only likes the people who smile to his face and say nice things and agree with him.

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